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Are you seeking an efficient and impactful method for integrating curriculum and maximizing student learning? Then, look no further than AHCMC's curriculum-based Arts Integration Residency (AIR) program. Arts Integration Residencies offer something for everyone!
- Residencies provide essential learning experiences through the use of hands-on, interactive programming led by professional artists trained in arts integration, classroom management and the Maryland State Curriculum.
- Arts Integration Residencies harness the power of the arts to reach students of all backgrounds and educational learning abilities to build skill in and knowledge of literacy, math, science, and social studies.
Sample Residencies
Using AHCMC's new online Teaching Artist Roster, educators can identify potential teaching artists with just a click of the mouse! Sort the Roster by grade level, cultural origin, curriculum or fine arts focus. Here's just a few samples of what the Roster offers:
ESOL Residencies
Residencies integrate drama and storytelling with reading comprehension skills and and oral language skills. Go to Search Form and click on English Language Proficiency and see these 3 artists:
- Lenore Blank Kelner
- Linda Fang
- Ali Oliver
Use the Search Form to find these artists by name or search by grade and curriculum focus.
K-2nd Grade
Science Curriculum- Creatures of the Chesapeake with storyteller Gail N. Herman. Under the leadership of international storyteller Gail Herman, students will create stories and story maps about the ecosystems and animals of the Chesapeake Bay.
3rd - 5th Grade
Social Studies - Opera Tales with musician Mary Gresock. Following an assembly program by Odyssey Opera Theatre, students develop their own mini-opera version of a familiar story.
6th - 8th Grade
Mathematics - Unraveling the Kolam, visual artist Shanthi Chandrasekar. This residency meets several Mathematics Standards including Knowledge of Algebra, Patterns, and Functions, Geometry and Number. Students are introduced to world cultures, specifically India through this residency.
9th - 12th Grade
Reading - US History and Jazz Dance, dancer Adrienne Clancy. In this residency, students connect U.S. history events with the evolution of Jazz Dance from the Reconstruction Era to present day.
Arts Integration Residencies- Easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. Choose your artist by browsing the online Teaching Artist Roster. Each artist profile will provide you with contact information, residency description, art forms, curriculum focus, duration of and fees for a residency. Click here for the Roster.
2. Contact the artist you have selected! Spend some quality time talking and emailing with the selected artist. Provide the artists with academic goals. Ask the artist to build a unique residency based on your specific needs.
3. Schedule your residency. Once your residency has been fleshed out, it's time to implement. Make sure to alert other teachers, staff, parents, and the media. Make a big deal out having your very own artist in residence. Throw a party and and the Washington Post!
For Title 1 and other high-risk public and private schools, grants from AHCMC are available. See grants article below. Deadline to apply November 17, 2010.
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| Japanese-American History Comes Alive | Kristine Yuki Aono is a new and powerful dynamic addition to the AHCMC's Teaching Artist Roster. A visual artist, Kristine incorporates history, creative writing, and role-play with the visual arts in her arts integration residency The Japanese- American Internment Camp Experience.
Designed for upper elementary and middle school students, this residency explores the experiences of Japanese-Americans living in Internment camps during World War II. Aono, whose parents and grandparents were interned during the war, leads students on a journey through history. Students will recreate the daily life experiences for camp members through role-play and creative letter writing. Students will then use mixed media (written letters, photo images, papers, fabric, markers and paints, and a "treasured memento") within a box form to create a narrative  sculpture.
Kristine Yuki Aono strongly believes that her experience as a professional artist has taught her an essential truth for the classroom: "Art can be a powerful messenger, a vehicle for expression and exchange." As a teacher, Kristine introduces her students to various art materials and processes and while exploring the possibilities of art as a conveyor of thought. Her own art tells stories of cultural, racial and gender identity and her family's history as Japanese-Americans.
Kristine currently teaches the art of altered books to a mentoring group which pairs sixth grade students from North Chevy Chase Elementary with High School mentors from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. The recipient of several awards, Kristine has is a grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts Project, Maryland State Arts and Civil Liberties Public Education. Click here to see Kristine's profile.
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| Students Integrate Arts and Science |
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Teaching artist Rob Levit brings science alive with arts integration techniques that excite and inspire students and teachers. Well-known through-out Maryland, Rob is an accomplished jazz guitarist and composer as well as teacher. Recently, Rob completed two arts integration residencies in Montgomery County using an interdisciplinary approach to teach elementary science curriculum. At Westbrook Elementary (Bethesda), Rob led second graders in an exploration of the life cycle of a butterfly. Students listened to and discussed Phillip Glass's orchestral work Metamorphosis and made Japanese sumi paintings reflecting a butterfly's metamorphosis. This activity addressed these 2nd grade VSCs:
- Fine Arts-Identify and compare ways in which selected artworks represent what people see, know, feel, and imagine
- Science-Explain that there are identifiable stages in the life cycles -growth, reproduction, and death -of plants and animals
Westbrook PTA parent Amy Kim praised Rob's work with the students: "We were so lucky to have someone so willing to bring so much energy and ideas." A  t Cashell Elementary (Rockville), Rob used a powerful mix of art forms--sumi painting, origami, song-writing, sound score composition, haiku and movement/drama-- to explore another science theme: the four seasons. Under Rob's tutelage forth and fifth graders integrated the arts into the science curriculum with stunning results. While at Cashell ES, Rob also led a teacher in-service focusing on arts integration techniques for classroom teachers. Click here to see Rob's profile.
Cashell ES Student Work
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| Grants for Arts Integration Residencies |
Grants Available Now for Title 1 schools and other schools with underserved populations (see below). Grant Deadline: November 17, 2010 for programs occuring between January 1 and June 15, 2011 Grant Guidelines: Click here to see Grant GuidelinesSchool Eligibility: To receive a grant, the residency must serve underserved students in Montgomery County. Eligibility factors include: - FARMS rate greater than 35% of the student body;
- high proportion of students with disabilities or special needs;
- ESOL rate higher than 35%.
Artist Eligibility: Eligible teaching artists are those individuals listed on the AHCMC Teaching Artists Roster.
The school, classroom teacher and the teaching artist must agree to work together to carry out the program. However, the application must be submitted by the classroom teacher or school representative.
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| Arts Integration | | Engaging Children in Critical Thinking and Meeting Academic Goals!
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Straight Talk From Your Peers
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Click to hear what principal Dr. Adrienne Morrow and Science Teacher Dawn Moffitt of East Silver Spring Elementary School have to say about their Arts Integration Residency! |
Meet AHCMC's Arts Integration Specialist
|  | Named the MCPS Maryland Art Education Association's Elementary School Retired Teacher of the Year, Shelley Johnson coordinates the Arts Integration Residency program at AHCMC. Prior to retiring from MCPS in June 2010, she was the lead teacher at two MCPS arts integration model schools. Each of her schools was identified at the state level for their outstanding arts programs and one of them was recognized in 2008 nationally.
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Fun + Learning
In School and Out of School | | Just a Click Away!
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Field Trip Directory
| Looking for a curriculum-based field trip here in Montgomery County? One that's engaging for students and educators while meeting important learning goals? Then check out the Field Trip Directory. You can sort the Directory by key word, curriculum focus, grade level and region.
 | | National Capital Trolley Museum |
A new service of AHCMC, the Field Trip Directory will continue to grow so keep checking back.
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Arts Integration Residencies
 | Arianna Ross, Storyteller
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 | Joanne Miller, Environmental Photograher
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 | Alden Phelps Storyteller & Musician
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 | | Marcie Wolf Hubbard Visual Artist |
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